Full Idea
Moving disturbances are a special and interesting kind of continuant: moments which continuously change their fundaments.
Gist of Idea
Moving disturbances are are moments which continuously change their basis
Source
Peter Simons (Parts [1987], 8.5)
Book Reference
Simons,Peter: 'Parts: a Study in Ontology' [OUP 1987], p.308
A Reaction
[a smile is a moment, and the face its fundament] I'm thinking he's got this wrong. Compare Idea 12882. Disturbances can't be continuants, because the passing of time is essential to them, but not to a continuant.
Related Idea
Idea 12882 A wave is maintained by a process, but it isn't a process [Simons]